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Project Date

2001-2003

Abstract

This is a two year (2001/4-2003/3) funded project by the Health Sciences Research Grants for Medical Frontier Strategy Research at the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare. The research team consists of the ICNP® committee members of the Japanese Nursing Association.
Main purposes of our project are to develop a necessary standardized Japanese nursing language system, and to contribute to the promotion of evidence based nursing practice in our country. While improving a language system necessary to accumulate and utilize nursing information in Japan, the project also aims at the further development of the ICNP®.
Objectives related to the ICNP® are as follows: refinement of the translation; development of a thesaurus; examination of the structure; validation of the terms and definitions; and identification of additional terms. Suggestions are mainly collected from two groups of Japanese nurses: an expert panel and those who volunteer to participate in the study via Internet. In order to gather suggestions and send timely information via Internet, a Japanese ICNP® web site has been created. http://icnp.umin.jp/
Primary Investigator:
Shigemi Kamitsuru (Japanese Nursing Association)
Collaborators:
Keiko Okaya (Japanese Nursing Association)
Keiko Kazuma (Tokyo University)
Mitsuko Matsuki (Japanese Red-Cross Hokkaido College of Nursing)
Kikuko Ota (Keio University)
Yumiko Uto (Kagoshima University)
Fumiko Wako (Japanese Nursing Association)
Masahiro Yanagida (Japanese Nursing Association)